By Bhakta Rob
I’m sure we’re on to a winner here. The south west is a great location, with broad-minded, forward-thinking people and lots of active small communities. There’s a real interest in ecology and environmental protection, and there are so many ways our project can plug into the work that’s being done on this issue in the region. If those of us who are potentially active members of the project can develop solid relationships with each other, and increase our own faith in Krishna and in the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, then we have a great foundation from which to build a dynamic model of sankirtana expansion that can be exported anywhere in the world. Why not? If others in the devotee community want to cricitise that we have too many big ideas, let them. We may apparently not have much to work with from an outsider’s perspective, but, knowing the character and personalities of those I have been privileged to begin to work with, I’d say we’ve got everything it takes down here to create a marvellous new wave of grass-roots Krishna conscious activity unrivalled anywhere in the western world. If I am thus accused of being proud, then I’d say that yes, I am very proud - proud of my colleagues, and proud to be a part of the sankirtana mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And of course, a little bit puffed up about myself as well :+) Still, whatever my disqualifications, I have every faith that the all-merciful Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda will bless us to develop our work and give us every facility to expand Their mission.
It’s no time for small thinking. Prabhupada wasn’t a small thinker, nor did he teach us to be. “Great things are not done by those who sit and count the cost of every thought and deed,” once said Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous west country engineer. His engineering built railways and bridges which might last two hundred years, but our engineering can build a movement which will last ten thousand years. Prabhupada has given us all the instructions necessary to build upon his foundations, all we need to do is have the courage and faith to get out there and start building. Not with bricks and mortar, but with friendships and commitments, with trust and with compassion, and with absolute faith in the sankirtana movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
So if you’re sat reading this wondering what to do about it - it’s easy.... just join in the party. We are not us and you. You ARE us. Wherever you are, whatever your situation: give your time, give your money, lend your skills, do whatever you can to help, become a part of what we’re trying to achieve and together let’s make something wonderful happen.
Hare Krishna.
I’m sure we’re on to a winner here. The south west is a great location, with broad-minded, forward-thinking people and lots of active small communities. There’s a real interest in ecology and environmental protection, and there are so many ways our project can plug into the work that’s being done on this issue in the region. If those of us who are potentially active members of the project can develop solid relationships with each other, and increase our own faith in Krishna and in the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, then we have a great foundation from which to build a dynamic model of sankirtana expansion that can be exported anywhere in the world. Why not? If others in the devotee community want to cricitise that we have too many big ideas, let them. We may apparently not have much to work with from an outsider’s perspective, but, knowing the character and personalities of those I have been privileged to begin to work with, I’d say we’ve got everything it takes down here to create a marvellous new wave of grass-roots Krishna conscious activity unrivalled anywhere in the western world. If I am thus accused of being proud, then I’d say that yes, I am very proud - proud of my colleagues, and proud to be a part of the sankirtana mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And of course, a little bit puffed up about myself as well :+) Still, whatever my disqualifications, I have every faith that the all-merciful Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda will bless us to develop our work and give us every facility to expand Their mission.
It’s no time for small thinking. Prabhupada wasn’t a small thinker, nor did he teach us to be. “Great things are not done by those who sit and count the cost of every thought and deed,” once said Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous west country engineer. His engineering built railways and bridges which might last two hundred years, but our engineering can build a movement which will last ten thousand years. Prabhupada has given us all the instructions necessary to build upon his foundations, all we need to do is have the courage and faith to get out there and start building. Not with bricks and mortar, but with friendships and commitments, with trust and with compassion, and with absolute faith in the sankirtana movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
So if you’re sat reading this wondering what to do about it - it’s easy.... just join in the party. We are not us and you. You ARE us. Wherever you are, whatever your situation: give your time, give your money, lend your skills, do whatever you can to help, become a part of what we’re trying to achieve and together let’s make something wonderful happen.
Hare Krishna.
